Omental infarction: An unusual cause of right iliac fossa pain in children

Omental infarction is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in the pediatric population. We report a case of a 4-year-old male child with right iliac fossa pain. The final diagnosis was made on ultrasound and computed tomography findings. This entity needs to be differentiated from acute conditions lik...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Laxmikant, Saxena, Akshay K., Sodhi, Kushaljit S., Mahajan, Jai K., Khandelwal, Niranjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862293
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.164637
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author Gupta, Laxmikant
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description Omental infarction is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in the pediatric population. We report a case of a 4-year-old male child with right iliac fossa pain. The final diagnosis was made on ultrasound and computed tomography findings. This entity needs to be differentiated from acute conditions like appendicitis, avoiding surgery.
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spelling pubmed-47211262016-02-09 Omental infarction: An unusual cause of right iliac fossa pain in children Gupta, Laxmikant Saxena, Akshay K. Sodhi, Kushaljit S. Mahajan, Jai K. Khandelwal, Niranjan J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Omental infarction is an uncommon cause of acute abdomen in the pediatric population. We report a case of a 4-year-old male child with right iliac fossa pain. The final diagnosis was made on ultrasound and computed tomography findings. This entity needs to be differentiated from acute conditions like appendicitis, avoiding surgery. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4721126/ /pubmed/26862293 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.164637 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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